Adena Schachner

Research Interests

My research explores how children and adults reason about the social world, with a particular focus on links between music and social cognition. How do we use mental states (like intentions, goals and preferences) to explain others’ actions, and to understand the artifacts that people own and create? I employ a variety of experimental methodologies, including looking time with infants, computational modeling, and behavioral methods with children and adults, both in the lab and around the world via the internet. For more, see http://madlab.ucsd.edu.

Selected Publications

Schachner, A., & Kim, M. (2018). Entropy, order and agency: The cognitive basis of the link between agents and order. Proceedings of the Fortieth Cognitive Science Society.